Community leaders and the
children of the Noel Pointer Foundation Youth Orchestra joined Borough
President Marty Markowitz (holding the cake on the left) on the steps of
Borough Hall on Thursday, July 18 to wish Nelson Mandela a happy 95th
birthday, and to declare "Nelson Mandela Day" in Brooklyn. The former
president of South Africa – an icon in the successful fight to overturn
apartheid in that nation – remained critically ill as of this posting